Friday, November 19, 2010

[MISP] Notions of Time (12/3-4) @ Santa Fe Complex

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The event of the season for science and art will be held December 3rd and 4th at the Santa Fe Complex.

NOTIONS OF TIME

There are many concepts of time in science and in different cultures," said Orlando Leibovitz, event curator. "Is our perception of time an illusion? What is the present moment? Did the Big Bang create time? Notions of Time asks these and other questions intellectually, visually and musically."

Friday evening will feature a performance of the haunting Quartet for the End of Time, composed and originally performed by Olivier Messiaen and three other French prisoners of war in a German camp in WWII. It will be performed by the Chatter Chamber Ensemble. A screening of the groundbreaking film Koyaanisqatsi, produced and directed by Santa Fean Godfrey Reggio will follow the quartet.

On Saturday, December 4th, original thinkers will present ten minute talks on time in physics, philosophy, Jungian psychology, the creative process, fiction, Buddhism, Native American culture and other subjects. Videos and photographs that illustrate different aspects of time will be projected. The event concludes Saturday evening with musical performances by the Contemporary Music Department of Santa Fe University of Art and Design and a second screening of Koyaanisqatsi.

Performed by James Shields, clarinet, David Felberg, violin, Dana Winograd, cello;

Members of both the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and "Chatter," A Chamber Ensemble.

Guest Appearance by New York-based Conor Hanik, piano.

Quartet For The End Of Time was composed by Messiaen in a German POW camp in 1940. It was first performed January 15, 1941, for an audience of German military personal and French POWs. The work was created to convey the composer's mystical Catholic notion of eternity and the end of time.

8:00 PM Film Screening: Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi, Produced and directed by Santa Fean Godfrey Reggio, with music by Phillip Glass, presents an original visual notion of time. The title is a Hopi word meaning "life out of balance." This film makes extensive use of slow motion and time lapse cinematography,